My pick right now is "Feeling good is better than that “third” slice of pizza."
I have only fairly recently worked out that how food makes you feel is at least as important as how it tastes.
I Turned 72 Today
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#12This kind of reads like what you’d get if you asked an AI for advice from an old person
Yeah, when I read lists like this, I mostly just think: "That's it?" It's very trite and uninteresting, and frankly if I make it to 72 and my advice is similar to this, I will feel like something has gone terribly wrong. If all the wisdom I've acquired in life is indistinguishable from a Hallmark card, then I probably lived a pretty boring life.
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#13This kind of reads like what you’d get if you asked an AI for advice from an old person
It's hard to not be cynical when you read stuff like "Envy is like drinking poison expecting the other person to die." which is like 2 different inspirational quotes taped together, I heard this one about hatred rather than envy.
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#14Good list, but it's something that I've seen (at least most of it), for many years.
The most likely explanation is that the same person posted it on their previous birthdays too.
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#15Oh the good old elder’s wisdom, as useful as a fork in a soup as always, do not complain, do not criticise, what a wonderful dystopia
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#16This kind of reads like what you’d get if you asked an AI for advice from an old person
It's hard to not be cynical when you read stuff like "Envy is like drinking poison expecting the other person to die." which is like 2 different inspirational quotes taped together, I heard this one about hatred rather than envy.
I've heard it as "Holding a grudge" instead of envy/hatred, which makes more sense to me.
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#17Good collection. My gripe, for every one of them, I hear a contradicting one, from an equally reputable source. And then it gives me a cognitive dissonant Diarrhoea. And stresses me out. DAE face this? How do they handle it?
Some further truths can colour the reliability of each.
1) honesty is the constantly out of reach ideal that solves a huge portion of nearly all global problems
2) Everyone becomes worm food faster than they expect, and they care less about their legacy when they are dead than they expected and they are forgotten faster and more permanently than they expected.
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#18I normally dislike lists like this but I like some of these.
"It’s usually better to be nice than right."
"Nobody gets to their death bed and says, I’m sorry for trying so many things."
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#19Fitting that it's "old.reddit.com" :P
72 is the new 60. I love the wisdom that comes with age however I hate the back pain.
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#20This kind of reads like what you’d get if you asked an AI for advice from an old person
Agreed. #4 tagged with (best tip) really got me. Should that not be number 1 then?